Michele Malkin sheds crocodile tears for Tavis Smiley’s ill-treatment by NPR. The slave masters at NPR apparently angered Smiley when they turned down his demands to tape his daily show a day early; control the rebroadcast rights, which NPR says…

I wrote back a couple of weeks ago about Tavis Smiley leaving NPR.

“….But I’m wondering if NPR was just getting tired of his act and realizing that his ego was writing checks his talent couldn’t cash.”

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day, a federal holiday. I think of it as “civil rights day” and I wonder if Dr. King ever imagined a federal holiday bearing his name. Dean Esmay inspired me to post on this with his required reading, the famous “I hav…

Have things ever really changed since the days of slavery? Tavis Smiley, rejecting a new NPR contract saying he does not do his best work in “chains and shackles,” because, among other complaings, they wouldn’t spend $3 million to promote…

…takes himself seriously so we don't have to.